But the uncle's eyes were fixed on Zhang Xiaosi who was lying on the ground and groaning.
"Which one is Old Lady Zhang's bedroom?" asked the uncle.
Zhang Fugui quickly pointed to a corner of the yard, which looked like a woodshed, low and cold.
Jiang Muqi didn't dare to follow them, but just watched his uncle and two senior brothers go in. After a while, the three of them came out. His uncle seemed to be thinking about something, the eldest senior brother was still calm, and the second senior brother had a grim expression.
I saw the master uncle putting his hand on Zhang Fugui's shoulder. The two of them were of different heights, so the master uncle had to bend down.
"I say, Elder Zhang, if I resolve this matter, will you pay me as usual?"
Zhang Fugui was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "That's my own fault."
The uncle smiled with satisfaction: "That's fine."
Then he saw his uncle giving instructions to his two brothers, who began running around in the yard. Jiang Mu asked, "Uncle, what can I do?"
"You? Take a closer look." Seeing Zhang Xiaosi struggling to get up, the uncle kicked him again.
After a while, the second brother returned to them and threw the hatchet and hemp rope in his hand to the ground with a muffled sound.
The onlookers craned their necks to watch.
"Ahem." The uncle cleared his throat. "Fellow villagers, we've made things clear. There's no evil spirit. This guy is the one who did it all." He pointed at Zhang Xiaosi who was still lying on the ground.
"What?"
Even Jiang Muqi was a little dumbfounded.
The eldest brother also came out, dragging a man who was tied up with five knots.
"Master, I really found it."
"Isn't this Zhang Laosan? What happened?" a villager exclaimed.
Zhang Laosan looked at the crowd blankly, then his gaze stopped at Zhang Xiaosi lying on the ground. His eyes became excited, and he reached out and tore off the rag stuffed in his mouth without saying a word.
"You're such a good fellow! We're brothers, but you want to kill me too! You damned bastard! Pah!"
Everyone was stunned when these words came out.
Amidst the angry cursing of Zhang Laosan, the truth of the matter was slowly revealed.
The Zhang family was not like what the villagers saw. Instead, the sons were unfilial, especially when Mrs. Zhang was old and could not move. The sons hoped that she would die soon, so they drove her to the low firewood room. However, she still had some money, so they could only support her and did not dare to mention her father's family easily, because no one wanted to take care of Mrs. Zhang and they all wanted to get the money. If the elders in the village knew about this, whoever mentioned her father's family would most likely suffer, so they just waited like this.
She was dead, but she came back to life.
All the chickens in the house died, but Zhang Xiaosi didn't care. They were just chickens. Their family lived at the outermost part of the house, so it was normal for them to attract wild animals.
However, Zhang Xiaosi, who was hanging out at the market, accidentally heard the legend about the old man spirit. He also owed gambling debts, and he had an idea.
So he began to spread the old man's story in the village, and then sold his eldest brother's daughter to a kidnapper, pretending to be missing. However, his deeds were discovered by his third brother.
Not only did Zhang Laosan not stop him, he used it to threaten him. So the two of them teamed up and first killed the eldest brother and his wife, and then wanted to fake an accident to kill the second brother, but the second brother was lucky and only broke his leg.
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